When it comes to issues of gender, sexuality, diversity and other such topics, there’s a new debate at the University of Kansas: Is there an evolution or an elimination underway?
KU administrators last week announced a reorganization that will bring many individual KU offices related to gender, sexuality, diversity and equality under one organizational umbrella and into shared space in the Kansas Union. ...
The University of Kansas has plans for a $120 million expansion of its architecture and design school, and hopes to win $10 million in state funding next year to spur the project.
KU leaders will seek permission from the Kansas Board of Regents this week to ask for that state funding, and also will brief the Regents on a variety of other potential building projects — including a new parking garage for the ...
For much of its more than 165-year history, there’s been a pretty straightforward, statistical rule in Douglas County: Lawrence has the bigger number.
After all, for a long time now, Lawrence has had about 80% of Douglas County’s total population. So, unless the number was dealing with something like bushels of corn, Lawrence was always going to outpace the rest of the county.
This year, that may not be ...
Keith Muller walked into the west Lawrence bicycle shop Cycle Works last year and made the most expensive purchase of his life. He bought the entire business after coming in to buy a $2 bike part.
But Muller did so, in part, because he thinks the shop can help bring a trend to Lawrence that will save lots of families money by reducing the number of cars a household needs.
The trend is e-bikes — a ...
John Della Volpe is widely regarded as the nation’s leading expert on complicated polling numbers related to Gen Z — America’s youngest voting-age generation that includes teenagers and the slightly-under-30 crowd.
But Della Volpe, director of polling at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University, sometimes uses a simpler story to highlight an often overlooked aspect of Gen Z. Della Volpe has a ...
Parents and local social service agencies are of one mind on one issue — finding affordable child care is darn tough in Douglas County.
You could take that statement a few steps further, too, a top official for the local United Way said Tuesday.
“We’re actually finding it is one of the key challenges we face as a country,” Angel Romero, vice president of resource development for the United Way of Kaw ...
